ok illuminate the. lip and think because. but wave of anti-war protest engulfs turkey with an activist accusing the government of being a u.s. stooge as anchor authorized possible military action against syria. the u.k. military aims to balance its books by wayne off thousands of soldiers while still throwing billions at malfunctioning military machines. plus forty years of textbooks socialism are put to the test in venezuela as hundreds of thousands flood the year flood the capital in support of you which obvious perhaps on these elections.

this is r.t. coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshing now what began as a peaceful anti-war demonstration turned ugly in the turkish capital ankara after riot police moved in to disperse the crowd officers fired tear gas and used water cannon as well as smoke grenades against the activists with manning bystanders also getting caught up in the melee thousands also poured into the streets of a stand to demonstrate against the policies of turkey's ruling party accusing it of singing to the tune of the u.s. the wave of popular discontent was sparked by the parliament's approval of cross border military action into syria which could pave the way to a full scale war more on that from artie's middle east correspondent policy or. they were chanting slogans that syria is all framed and that we are against war but

they clashed with police firing rounds of tear gas at them more people are concerned that the border tensions could disintegrate into a regional conflict on tuesday the turkish parliament held a closed door. emergency station in which a build was overwhelmingly passed that allows the turkish military to carry out cross border operations against syrian targets now this is in period for a year it has been defended by the turkish government that says it has the right to defend itself it is a pains to point out that this is not a declaration of war and that will operate in conjunction with international bodies the turks are responding to a syrian water that was fired on wednesday it killed five citizens two of them women and three of them children while they were preparing and took you immediately responded by firing into syrian territory and this offensive continued

until the early hours of thursday morning now by all accounts they were several syrian soldiers who were killed tookie also responded by going on the offensive in the political arena an emergency meeting of nato was hold on wednesday so as i say an extremely volatile situation that we're keeping close watch on both the reporting there media reports suggest that turkey has carried out around seventy strikes against syria killing a dozen soldiers and destroying heavy weaponry however says it has no intentions of starting a war with syria but at least political analyst charminar while he says turkey doesn't necessarily have to engage in direct military action against the embattled state to defeat it. turkey's declared war on syria long time ago this is aired on endeavor to lose war they've supplied weapons and they've supplied training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system

think needs to sort of you know do a last push against the assad regime they cannot get a un security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for a back door into military intervention because of course church even call it can call on its nato allies to to assist in its centrally the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with assad regime if there was a un security council resolution so you know and there are questions about this is this the false. you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one. the un is most powerful body has called for restrain from both the mascot's as a strongly cried serious deadly attack on turkish citizens are has got the latest from the un security council and new york well the un security council agreed and

issued a presidential statement strongly condemning wednesday's mortar attack by syria on a turkish border town that as we already heard as killed people in injured several others the council called on the syrian government to fully respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors and called on all concerned parties to exercise maximum restraint a presidential statement issued by the council also demanded that quote such violations of international law stop immediately and are not repeated mortar fire from syria had a town in turkey on wednesday and that's when the security council began deliberating this prize. it into a statement earlier on thursday the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon also voiced his alarm at escalating tensions along the syrian turkish border and the un itself there's a lot of divisions over how to solve this crisis that it escalates and everybody within the security council in the u.n.

is trying to ease tensions that are growing not only within syria but now on the border between syria and turkey. the timeline of events and more on else is on the stories available at our t.v. dot com and there you can also find more on the ripple effect of the on running syrian crisis asserting to its neighboring states. iraq is one of them and later today r.t. talks to the country's prime minister who says peace can be brought to syria through weapons and foreign troops. the british army is the latest victim of the country's seemingly endless a sturdy drive with eight thousand fewer u.k. soldiers reporting for duty come the new year but as reports when it comes to funding expensive war toys britain apparently has money to burn. the number of soldiers in the british army is being cut back by a fifth as you can see here that's quite a significant reduction is going to mean the smallest british army since before the napoleonic wars eight thousand u.k.

troops face christmas unemployed civilians defense secretary philip pam and insists the cuts a necessary to balance the defense budget yet at the same time the u.k. is committed to remaining one of the biggest military spending is in the world well anymore an army even if it cuts its troops needs up to date equipment but take a look at these the british government has spent some two billion pounds on developing remote control attack drones since two thousand and seven but hunger and u.k. drones don't have a good track record how about the watch keeper drone this nifty piece of military equipment has already cost the u.k. taxpayers eight hundred million pounds it was meant to be up and flying by now it isn't yet ready and now running two and a half years late the watch keep its predecessor it was a drone called the phoenix that proved so unreliable that an army cycles it became

known as the bugger off because it often left on missions never to return the phoenix was. such an epic fail that it was used as an example of the quote dismal failure of the british built drone systems engineering students in one u.k. university and the cost of this techno flop two billion pounds in fact the ministry of defense is attempt to balance its books has actually contributed to an increase in spending on equipment something those troops facing their final paycheck in the coming weeks will find hard to stomach playboy care. more stories features videos and analysis is in store for you on the web including an ad off in the big apple jewish and christian activist groups respond to an anti islamist poster campaign with a message of tolerance. an eleven year old boy from northern siberia has made of mammoth discovery and covering the mirror complete remains of a thirty thousand year old creature buried in permafrost.

after a long and bitterly fought campaign venezuela is now braced for presidential elections on sunday but both candidates and common to travis and his rivalry came up previous certainly made the most of their last day on the trail hundreds of thousands of people attended their rally led by chavis and a passionate display of solidarity with the socialist agenda the prose is viewed as a popular opposite of incumbent president on nearly every policy he wants to private eyes there and as well an economy as advanced almost all welfare programs and as a diehard supporter of israel and south american political analyst adrian so it's no surprise washington wants to see charges that. he has secretly stands which is

very high use throughout many fields of life. that the united states john. not just in the middle east but worldwide and not so much the countries that are attacked by the united states especially at a time when in two thousand and eight the united states has reactivated the fourth south atlantic fleet and they now have a very strong military presence throughout latin america in the south atlantic just as they have engineered insurrection and civil war which seems to be washington's specialisation now with the so-called arab spring mini theater here in latin america we will be seeing a latin american spring with different characteristics but where the united states will meddle in the in sort of affairs of conscious like in israel and they will even trigger in activate a generalized latin american spring which will be turmoil social unrest and even civil war. another battle for power this time in the u.s. . all it's seen take a look at why the president's first televised. cold while some critics slam entire

u.s. elections for a lack of real choice. of reindeer gracefully dancing across the arctic tundra more than just it is a way of life traditionally the people are nomadic reindeer herders and though in many ways they lead a simple and rustic life they are also highly skilled and organized in. another week. depending. on the day we found this particular camp they were settled near the coast of the. here for families work together to manage nearly a thousand reindeer herding reindeer is not just a job people in fact they say it's a part of their entire culture heritage and way of life and they say that they can

use almost every single part of the reindeer to help them survive. the deer is a means of transportation. with. the life in the tundra is harsh and so before winter hits many of the children are helicoptered to the center of the district for boarding school. students learn different languages utilize modern technologies through specialized grant programs and even learn arts skills all within a protected environment the school was founded. a scientist who wanted a better way of life for his people but even with the most progressive ideas and education many say they don't. to trade the modern life for their beloved. i have returned to the tundra and i actually like it here if you're outside there's

fresh air fresh water looks at the site you can see deer it's a joyful sight. a sentiment that hopefully ensures that russia's northern reindeer will have caretakers for generations to come. wealthy british. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. global financial headlines. is a report. welcome

back you're watching r.t. live from moscow the us presidential candidates barack obama and mitt romney have address their supporters following their first t.v. debate polls show that romney overwhelmed incumbent obama in a duel commanding the ninety minute debate but prague anderson presidential candidate for the justice party thinks two parties ultimately dominating u.s. politics is unhealthy for america i left the democratic party and helped form the

justice party because now the republican and democratic parties are simply why do ugly they have a stranglehold on our electoral system from the stage of getting on the ballot all the way through the debate process and they have both been bought and paid for by the same special interest we have a plutocracy not a democracy in the united states where our government is for sell to the highest bidder romney would bring us along the same path that led to the economic disaster in two thousand and eight with to fuge tax cuts for the wealthy enormous deficits and low employment rates and president obama has a pathetic record he's the only president that has presided over three years of unemployment of over eight percent it absolutely can be changed we know that that's what the american people want it's simply that we don't have those elected to

office that are willing to take on the special interest. but a cartoonist and columnist ted rall says americans are seeking a new policy vision for the nation. it's very hard to tell to see how mitt romney can overcome the lead in the key swing states that obama currently enjoys which considering the state of the economy over the last four years is say something about the ineptitude of the romney campaign now that said he did outperform expectations last night and you know he is still in the games if he continues to surge and does better in the future debates it's possible that a spite vote will be able to turn against obama and go for romney in a two party system that's all we really have what was very strange is how the democrats who typically identify better with the poor and downtrodden failed to humanize their point of view you know obama talked constantly about having

a different approach rather than having a different vision americans don't want a different approach they want to different vision and they want solutions mitt romney talked about the people who are hurting in the midwest people who are unemployed whom he met and asked for his help that's the kind of thing that obama should have done it's really politics want to one and somehow he was just really off his game but also the latest edition of our team is the bait show cross stock that sets the first t.v. debate between romney and obama to find out where the president went wrong a full shell is coming up next hour. now eighteen elementary school students have been killed in a landslide in southwest china medics police and military personnel are searching for any survivors trapped under the rubble a landslide came down early in the morning hitting the school and nearby houses and blocking a river over eight hundred people were evacuated from the region although it was a holiday in china the children still went to school to make up for the days they had missed because of an earthquake which hit the region last month. massive rival

demonstrations are expected in jordan's capital amman and around two hundred thousand supporters of king of dollars reforms and about fifty thousand backers of the opposition muslim brotherhood party are gathering for peaceful rallies at the same venue on friday earlier the king dissolved parliament clearing the way for new elections and he pledged to introduce more reform aiming to avoid arab spring style unrest the country has already faced nearly twenty months of protests with people demanding more say in how the state is run. eighty seven people jailed in tunisia for storming the u.s. embassy may be sentenced to death say to the fans lawyers back in september an angry mob attacked the diplomatic have waters in the capital tunis before being met by a strong response from riot police for demonstrators were killed and many more injured in follow up clashes the incident came in the wake of furious anti-american

protests by muslim communities across the globe over the u.s. produced film that mocked the prophet muhammad. the repercussions from the war in afghanistan to have now reached as far away as india their entire farming communities are being devastated by the influx of cheap afghan heroin with addiction tainting every aspect of life and anger over the issues being directed at the us which refuses to go after afghan drug lords and their vast plantations for fear of driving them into the arms of the insurgency to report. almost two thousand kilometers from the war zone in afghanistan and women like smith rocor are fighting a battle of their own in punjab india and i doubt my son lives with me we lost his father to drugs and recently lost his elder brother to drugs everyone in the neighborhood is brought to you taking up drugs and if my son or i don't buy them who will look after the children going in. once known as one of the most prosperous

states in india punjab is now one of the biggest drug trafficking hubs in the world officials say most of the confiscated drugs are coming from nearby afghanistan the largest global producer of opium and the situation is getting worse the united nations has reported that opium production has more than doubled in afghanistan since the united states invaded the country in two thousand and one critics say that nato and the united states have not done enough to eradicate the narcotics producing poppy fields which they say is the afghans biggest source of income. is such a culture would lead is such a bankrupt lead used to its condition. trysts. of resistant to anything you see the community is hardened it's of so much so they're not going to lose and look nice you know start going to await the drug

addiction problem in punjab this becomes so bad that at spirit say that one in three people are actually addicted to drugs and in this area alone people say that seventy percent of the people between the ages of fifteen and thirty five are addicts it's the drugs and that's not good news for these women smithville course community has now become known as the village of widows because of all the men who have died from drug addiction. now many bring their chilled. and to this school where sixteen percent of the six hundred fifty children are orphans most of their parents died from drug related mainly through private donations they are all able to get an education for free but it's little consolation for what many fear could become a lost generation in punjab if more action against drug trafficking isn't taken again i think if something happens to my son will happen to the family where we can

i bring them up my so. far from the bullets and explosives in afghanistan the people of punjab wonder how they too can escape the war that has started to impact millions of their own preassure either r t india. right now to see what's happening in the world of business and a lot of things developing there today especially when it comes to european investors maria's house more. well basically of russia is a working on something that could see it attract a lot of foreign investors if you up of course as well european ones and what we're talking about is a license as a all for its licenses in the energy rich arctic waters and this move right now foreign companies can operate on offshore projects but they can't go on the license norway starts well welcomes the move saying that will simplify the structure of

investment and so russia and these comments come just hours before the energy ministers trip to london alexander meeting london listed oil for arms a lot says russia seeks to develop challenge and deposits. and europe is of course continuing to fight for transparency in its energy market and now it's come up with a new way to achieve that it wants its a member countries to disclose all their energy and that's and the way to push for universal prices across the board now and march next year that will provide. commission with their oil and gas deal with us for the member countries and also started next year the e.u. commission will be able to take part in all energy talks the move comes amid the e.u.'s antitrust investigation into gas pricing strategy in europe and last week expressed this sounds over the economic efficiency of europe's energy levels. to look at international markets will start with europe which is and about its second

hour of the trade in session what we see in there is a pause the figures announced as investors await the u.s. in on form payrolls data that's due out later in the day so we're seeing optimism there so of live numbers will be like that as well now i want to stay with the europe and talk about spain and that's because the fitch ratings agency says the biggest threat this instance of find a recession spain is resisting making the request for aid even though it's expected to see its economy shrink and this will reportedly result from the current high unemployment and the massive spending cuts. currently a triple b. rating for spain where the negative outlook. now let's continue with the russian markets where it's also an optimistic mood over one percent for both the r.t.s. and the my success despite the fact that the central bank said that there's been a drop in foreign direct investment we got sixteen point five billion dollars in the first half of the year which is a forty percent less than the year before it's also russia has invested less in two

other countries and there's been a drop of water to twenty five billion dollars for the same time period now let's move on and take a look at currencies see what's happening with the euro dollar ruble when it comes to the euro slots against the u.s. dollar and the ruble is getting into both the currency basket now and all the new songs about samsung electronics which has recorded record profits in the third quarter and that was driven by strong sales of the galaxy smart phones electronic giants operating profit jumped ninety one percent to seven a billion dollars that's almost double last year's figure and the higher than analysts expertise. and it's not only true for samsung out of those currently battling out for over patents and from dallas wants a facebook which says the number of active monthly users has topped one billion as roughly half of the internet users and the world and double the social networks war two years ago the average age of a facebook user is twenty two and their country of origin is likely to be brazil india or indonesia and that's how business looks this more that stuff for you

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